Monday, April 29, 2013

Cheer Camp "has a somewhat sheer milky base that is very lightly tinted pink. The
pink tint is so slight that when you paint one coat over a white polish
it hardly picks up any of the pink tint at all. Cheer Camp has pastel pink and purple hex glitters with tiny bright pink micro glitters. So fun and girly!"
(Source: Pretty & Polished).

I used three coats for this slightly translucent look and had no issues with application, no dabbing, fishing or placing of glitters needed. I finished with one coat of Essence Better Than Gel Nails Top Sealer.

Pretty & Polished are available on Etsy, but Cheer Camp is no longer available.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

My base color is China Glaze Tart-y For The Party (Avant Garden Collection), a bright lilac creme. Formula was great, I used two easy coats.

On top of Tart-y For The Party, I dabbed one coat of Happy Hands Morgan, "an adventurous mix of matte & metallic purple glitters (including a few holo squares) and glowy purple iridescent glitter."
(Source: Happy Hands)

This polish is very sparkly, the blue, pink, yellow and green glitters you see in the bottle shot are actually the holo squares.

Application was very easy. I finished with one coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and one coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.

Morgan is a limited edition. All profits from the sale of this polish will be donated to support a
new local non-profit organization called Covenant Pet Trust. Their
mission and goals are: "We work with pet owners who become
terminally ill or permanently disabled. Our goal is to keep the pet in
the owner's life as long as possible. We do this through inhome support
or foster homes that provide pet/patient visits in hospice or nursing
homes. We work with the owner to determine their wishes regarding their
pet's life after they are gone. We can transport to a designated new
owner or place the pet for adoption in a qualified new home."

As mentioned, Morgan is a limited edition, but there are still some bottles left on Kristi's Etsy shop. Happy Hands polishes are sold on Etsy and at Harlow & Co.,

Friday, April 26, 2013

My base color is Catrice Discreet Artist (Neo Geisha Limited Edition), a sheer slighty peach toned creme (a cream creme...). I used four coats and you can still see my nail line a little.

On top of Discreet Artist I added two coats of 365 Days Of Color Boouk!, a almost translucent neutral base filled with glitters in gold, peach and brown in different sizes and forms (hexes, squares). The base makes this polish really interesting, it dries to a satin finish that gives the polish a somewhat matte look.

Application was easy, I finished with one coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and one coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast.

I really liked the way it looked, but I wouldn't wear it like that again. This mani took me, including base- and topcoat, 9 (I repeat: nine) coats and took ages to dry. In fact, I dented 6 of my nails because it took so long to dry...

Boouk! was part of last year's Halloween collection and is discontinued, but you can get other polishes by 365 Days Of Color here.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

A Doctor Who polish today: Nail Pattern Boldness Hello Sweetie! It's purple, it's Doctor Who, I simply had to get it :-)

"Hello, Sweetie is a purple jelly with a mix of copper, black and red
metallic glitters. It is part of the Time Traveler collection and is
inspired by River Song."
(Source: Nail Pattern Boldness)

To be honest, after endless years of Emergency Room, I still think of Elizabeth Corday when I see Alex Kingston, but I do like River Song. ;-)
"Hello Sweetie" is how she greats the Doctor

My pictures show four coats of Hello Sweetie, topped with one coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and one coat of Cult Nails Wicked Fast. The purple jelly base is a little more red tones IRL, my purple-hating camera refused to capture the color correctly.